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Photo by Myles Dannhausen Jr.This year marks 50 years of MacDonald family ownership at Bayside Tavern, a cornerstone of downtown Fish Creek. To mark the occasion, Bayside is planting 50 trees in the community throughout 2025, one for every year of family stewardship and small-town hospitality. On Earth Day, April 22, the public is invited to get lunch at Bayside Tavern and receive a free tree to plant at home, while supplies last.

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Kayakers head to the water. File photo by Larry Mohr. Destination Door County (DDC) has two goals that might seem contradictory at first: to draw visitors to the peninsula, but also to ensure the impact of tourism doesn’t hurt the natural resources that make the area worth visiting. Those two aims don’t have to clash, according to Julie Gilbert, DDC president and CEO. “It’s a messy world,” Gilbert said. “It’s a technology-heavy world.

2 months ago | doorcountypulse.com | Sam Watson

Chris Opper. File photo by Brett Kosmider. From Door County LivingIn 2024, the 15th-annual Door County Short Film Festival brought in an audience of nearly 300 people, selling out Northern Sky’s Gould Theater in mid-February. In 2009, the festival started small. It was the outgrowth of a casual film night headed by Red Putter mini golf co-owner Chris Opper, held in the basement of the Base Camp Coffee in Sister Bay.

2 months ago | doorcountypulse.com | Sam Watson

Newberry and Verch perform in an intimate show at the White Gull Inn. Photo by Brett Kosmider. “Intimate” is a word that can describe many Door County concert venues, but perhaps none more so than the White Gull Inn. Since starting a winter concert series in 1983, the Fish Creek hotel and restaurant has brought in folk and bluegrass legends like Tom Paxton, Bob Gibson and Chris Smither – big names for such a small venue.

2 months ago | doorcountypulse.com | Sam Watson

(From left) Ketchup/Three Springs members Paul Taylor, Adam Cain and Shepley Frater. Photo by Suzi Hass. Fireworks over the ice might signal the end of Winterfest for many festival-goers, but not for local music trio Three Springs, which moonlights as Ketchup. Drummer Adam Cain, bassist/vocalist Shepley Frater and guitarist/vocalist Paul Taylor will be playing their usual haunt, Hill Street, on the evening of Feb. 1, 9:30 pm (ish.)Catch up on Ketchup with this Q&A with Taylor before the show.